TripAdvisor Reviews Mingde Grand Hotel Shanghai

Travel Blogs from Shanghai

... Watertown” about an hour and a half from “our home”. The small village reminded us of the canals of Venice, yet in an ancient Chinese culture setting.

Picture this; narrow, worn “sidewalks” lining both sides of a wide murky canal, with groups of tourists jostling along on the uneven stones, and you have a recipe for disaster a, as in some places there were no guard rails (OSHA where are you?).

Sorry, I missed two days this time… The past couple of days I was working on the first part of my final project which consists of writing a full weeks’ worth of lesson plans. The theme I chose was, of course, animals. I even stole some of the script from when I used to teach kids ...

... walking, doing callisthenics, doing tai chi, kids learning how to rollerblade, playing cards, sipping on tea and coffee, and my favourite... dancing in the park! It was all quite the scene to see! We stood watching the dancing for quite sometime... as you walked down the lane different music was playing and different styles of dance was being done... mostly a version of waltzing was taking place. A middle aged Chinese man asked me to join in in the dancing and so I waltzed with the ...

... area called oven steamed buns. They were steamed raw dough balls made with a variety of fillings and were served in round wooden baskets that were stacked together which looked really cool and like something I hadn’t seen before .Each tray was different .The first ones were green and filled with spinach. They were okay. At least I knew what I was eating. The second tray I was told was crab so I decided could be a big girl and eat it, the third ...